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It has been my assumption that Facebook's and Google's core network and security teams are each a large crowd of embedded spies working for various intelligence
by beagle3 12y ago
It has been my assumption that Facebook's and Google's core network and security teams are each a large crowd of embedded spies working for various intelligence agencies.
Think about it: You're a NSA/Mossad/MI5 NetOps operative. You can have access to a lot of information without risking your life, get paid by your agency AND google/facebook. What's not to like?
- mike_hearn 12y agoWouldn't work well. Way too many of these companies key employees are not US citizens and many aren't in the USA at all. Google, for example, has a large security team in Switzerland, with quite a few German and British employees. The NSA sees itself as a military organisation, it is bound by military rules.
- uptown 12y agoWhy would that matter? Intelligence agencies have turned foreign nationals before. And in the case of a US/British cross-over, those intelligence agencies have intelligence sharing agreements.
- beagle3 12y ago> The NSA sees itself as a military organisation, it is bound by military rules. What rules would that be? In the military, actively seeking (and using) information you have no right/classification to see is a serious offence. According to articles I've read, not a single NSA employee was disciplined for e.g. spying on their SOs or Exs. Also: If the NSA doesn't have Swiss and German citizens working for it, it's not a very good intelligence agency. And we know for a fact that it is, at least as far as reach is concerned.